10.01.2018 - 12:18 [ ScientificAmerican.com ]

Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers

„For Spectre in particular, it’s also worth asking why it wasn’t found by Arm or more generally computer scientists who were teaching speculative execution in microprocessor academic courses. One answer might be that people tend to look at the things they know to look at, and Spectre involves a problem that cuts across different disciplines, where people working on one aspect of a technology don’t know as much about other aspects.“